Thesaurus results for ATOMIZED

atomized

verb

past tense of atomize

as in crushed

to reduce to fine particles this medication for athlete's foot is atomized so that it can be sprayed on from an aerosol can

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Recent Examples of atomized Maybe a sleek ship is being chased by enemy fighters through a dense asteroid field, and one of them smashes into a massive space rock and is explosively atomized. —

Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 May 2026 The internet has atomized some of the conservative movement’s culture—support for Israel within the Republican Party has been sustained in large part by voters’ embeddedness in evangelical church life. —

Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026 Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. —

Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026 But Judah’s model was, in its way, less public, or at least less politically oriented, more atomized, similar to self-help figures like Oprah and Deepak Chopra, who might give private instruction and offer one-on-one spiritual therapy to the famous. —

Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026 Our group had lost each other in the night and the cacophony—atomized by the strangeness—but miraculously found each other again. —

Veronique Greenwood, Time, 21 Dec. 2025 Now, the world has gotten so multipolar, polarized and atomized. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025 Challenges, Opportunities, and Passports Runaway production has been atomized as states and countries compete to offer producers the hottest deals. —

Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024 The system’s emissions consist of water atomized and released as vapor. —

Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2024

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My greatest wish is that this ruling sets a precedent for the Treasury and serves the thousands of ordinary citizens who are abused and crushed every day by a system that presumes their guilt and forces them to prove their innocence at the cost of economic and emotional ruin.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 May 2026
Texas oil companies would get crushed.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 18 May 2026